This week is going to be HUGE!!!
October 28 - November 3: Your weekly updates from Zibbybookland....
Just so you know: I’m doing all of this to connect you readers with a curated selection of authors and books that will inspire meaningful conversations, so we can cheer each other on through the chapters of life.
Join in!
On the podcast:
Jennifer Love Hewitt, star of “Party of Five” and author of Inheriting Magic discusses parenting, loss…and wine.
Al Roker and his daughter Courtney share their new cookbook.
Glory Edim, founder of the Well Read Black Girl community, reveals the heart of her book-loving memoir Gather Me, which is my January Zibby’s Book Club pick.
Bruce Cameron, mega best-selling author of A Dog’s Purpose and many others, discusses his road to bestsellerdom and the afterlife of dogs.
Nikki Schreiber, founder of the @humansofjudaism massive Instagram account, shares her new book of the same name and the most inspirational Jewish stories of all time.
In person!
Our Zibby Retreat Scottsdale kicks off Friday with an event for ALL of you!
Join us for the first of our many live meet-ups throughout the country and in Canada at the Poisoned Pen in Scottsdale this Friday at 6 pm!!! (Full event list here.)
We’ll be joined by Zibby Books Publishing author Sarah Sawyer, author of the Apple Best Book of October The Undercurrent, plus New York Times bestselling author Maggie Smith, Annabel Monaghan, Betty Cayoutte, Tara Schuster and others in Phoenix! Come!
NYC: I’ll also be going to the New York Society Library’s comedy event with our Zibby Books author John Kenney, Zibby’s Book Club pick Ann Leary, and others performing on Wednesday at 6 pm. Info here.
Pub Day!
Friday is pub day for my anthology with 75 authors contributors On Being Jewish Now with profits going to Artists Against Antisemitism. (Full tour stop list here.)
To kick things off, join me online tomorrow, Tuesday, with Amy Klein for the Jewish Fertility Foundation livestream.
And on Sunday at Zibby’s Bookshop, I’ll be with over a dozen contributors for our in person launch party from 4:30 pm - 6 pm in Santa Monica. Register here!
Plus we have a new podcast episode dropping Thursday of On Being Jewish Now: The Podcast (did you hear Julia Nickerson’s episode last week?) and a ton of new personal essays up on that Substack.
Speaking of Zibby’s Bookshop:
Tonight! Monday, our local Santa Monica book club is meeting to discuss Liz Moore’s God of the Woods. Also this week, Lynn Steger, Stephanie Wrobel and others, will be doing events. Follow @zibbysbookshop on Instagram for updates!
Personally…
I’m having lunch with Noa Tishby, heading to an Eventbrite Romantasy Halloween event, going to a UJA publishing event, interviewing Leigh Bardugo and Ana Huang, celebrating Halloween with my kids and my team, planning our year of events, and finishing edits on my novel Overheard out next October 2025. Plus my #momlife which is everything else!
Oh, and I hear there’s an election coming up?!
Have a great week, everyone!!
Have a week as wonderful as you are! Thank you for the connections you make and continue to make. You have enriched my life and so many others.
How do I get a ticket for a friend for event in Santa Monica on Sunday ?